Richard Griffin Canny

Richard Griffin Canny
Richard (Dick) Griffin Canny, age 82, of Cape Coral, Florida, passed away on September 19, 2023. Dick was born on September 23, 1940 in New Haven, Connecticut to Gertrude Higgins Canny and Anthony Canny. He is survived by his loving wife of 38 years, Elizabeth (Betsy) Kimler Canny, and his three children: Robert and wife Deborah Canny of Wallingford, Connecticut, Richard Canny of Burbank, California, and David and wife Kimberly Canny of Ponce Inlet, Florida. In addition, Dick is survived by six grandchildren: Jared, Nicholas, Jordan, and Caroline Canny, Heather Fasano, and Paige Wilkinson, as well as five great-grandchildren: Joseph, Colin, Logan, Charlotte, and Kinsley Canny. He is also survived by two sisters: Nancy Foley and her husband James, and Linda Wirkus and her husband Richard. He was predeceased by his parents and his brother, Robert.
Dick began his career in the newspaper industry with the Jackson newspapers in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1958, as an Apprentice Printer. He retired from the New Haven Register as Assistant Production Director in 1986. Then Dick spent the next 14 years as the Technical Service Manager for Garden State Paper Company in New Jersey. He and his wife, Betsy, retired to Florida in the year 2000, where he became very active in his church, the Knights of Columbus and the Guadalupe Center in Immokalee, Florida. They discovered River Cruising in Europe and also spent time with relatives in his beloved Ireland. Following funeral services in Florida, Dick will be remembered at a memorial service and interment at Saint Mary's cemetery in Hamden, Connecticut in the Spring.
" You are not the Darkness you Endured, You are the Light that Refused to Surrender."